The pages of horror novels are filled with eerie and gory descriptions of ghosts and monsters. But while this spookiness is strictly relegated to the page
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Romantic poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. Shelley was the heir to rich estates acquired by his grandfather, Bysshe (pronounced
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English Romantic novelist who is best known as the author of Frankenstein, a text that is part Gothic novel and part philosophical novel and is also often considered an early example of science fiction. Learn more about her life and works in this article.
Frankenstein is the original English-language Gothic horror book. It’s been made into films over and over again, and its influence is still felt in modern